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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Heroic vs. jBASE vs. Kinetica vs. SiteWhere

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.kinetica.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperCockroach LabsSpotifyRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)KineticaSiteWhere
Initial release20152014199120122010
Current release24.1.0, May 20245.77.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC, C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTyesyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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